State Retirement Pensions: National Insurance Contributions

(asked on 14th May 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) men and (b) women (i) built up a qualifying year towards the state pension by paying National Insurance Contributions, (ii) built up a qualifying year towards the state pension through National Insurance credits and (iii) did not build up a qualifying year towards the state pension in (A) 2011-12 and (B) the latest year for which figures are available.


Answered by
Guy Opperman Portrait
Guy Opperman
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 2nd June 2021

We do not have the specific data. However, the Local Labour Market Statistics of 2019 provides us with a 1% sample data. If that was to be scaled to 100% the probability is that the 100% data would show the following:

The tables below show a breakdown of how qualifying years were built up for the tax years 2011/12 and 2018/19.

2011/12

Male

Female

Total

NI Contributions only

13,851,200

11,157,100

25,008,300

NI Credits only

2,352,600

3,047,500

5,400,100

NI Contributions and Credits

445,700

840,200

1,285,900

Total

16,649,500

15,044,800

31,694,300

No full qualifying year

2,546,600

2,027,500

4,574,100

2018/19

Male

Female

Total

NI Contributions only

13,863,400

12,378,800

26,242,200

NI Credits only

1,518,900

2,918,300

4,437,200

NI Contributions and Credits

210,300

682,700

893,000

Total

15,592,600

15,979,800

31,572,400

No full qualifying year

2,168,900

2,017,100

4,186,000

The line ‘NI Contributions and Credits’ indicates where a qualifying year includes some periods of contributions and some of credits within the year.

The line ‘No full qualifying year’ refers to those individuals who may have had some contributions or credits recorded, but did not build a qualifying year in the respective years.

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